universalizability
Britishnoun
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the thesis that any moral judgment must be equally applicable to every relevantly identical situation
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the Kantian principle that if a course of action cannot be universally adopted it must be morally impermissible
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I fully reject the Kantian universalizability principle that underlies so much of contemporary moral discussion.
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